My NEW accessories blog

Sorry for neglecting this blog... many things happen during Chinese New Year. Husband had a terrible Chicken Pox "outbreak" at the age of forty plus. The sudden "outbreak" made me real busy during Chinese New Year. Well, it's already months ago....now, I decided not to post any food blog since our family diet has changed to plain vegetable dishes mainly.

I thought it is good that I should post my other hobby which I have stopped for two years ... that's my handmade accessories.

So, please follow my newly created accessories blog at
http://aprettypiece.blogspot.com/

P.S. A Pretty Piece was named few years back when I collaborated with my then office colleague to sell our handmade products. And with her permission, I decided to use back the original name...(some of our then customers may remember us ^o*)

Happy 'Niu' Year

Love Letters

Love letters or Kueh Kapit(in Malay), is a very common type of cookies which you will get to see during Chinese New Year visitings.

In the olden days, love letters are cooked over charcoal stove; the egg and flour mixture are poured into a metal mould which are then peeled from it and quickly rolled and shape, the minute they are cooked.

These days, love letters electric maker became popular which ease the pain of having to squat in front of the charcoal stove the entire day of making them. However, the slight disadvantage of using it is the uneven tones and you gets rolls which are also thicker than made with traditional method. Nevertheless, we managed to make quite a few bottles of our satisfactory love letters with the electric maker! ^o*

Cereal Cookies

Both Christmas and New Year celebrations were barely over... now; the Chinese Lunar New Year is approaching us so quickly!!

The "production" of Chinese New Year cookies started again! This year, sis wanted to make something simple as she had a long holiday just before Christmas. Both she and I are so lazy to bake anything more than last years' "productions".

Her oven heated up last Friday.... the production output were many bottles of cereal cookies sufficient for her distribution to relatives! Sis declared Saturday as rest day for our own CNY preparations ... ... and baking continues on Sunday for 'love letters'.

Vegetarian Rojak

Husband and I went over to friend's house yesterday to make our vegetarian Rojak (a fruits and vegetable dish commonly found in Singapore and Malaysia)!! Since I still have lots of the prepared ingredients left-over, I made my second round of Rojak this evening, again!!! ^^